Dear students,
When you enter the sacred Medical University, you will bear the faith of fighting for the development of medical and healthcare undertaking for our motherland as well as the physical and mental health of mankind all your life. Starting from study and practice, the library may help you grow into a qualified medical student with the oath “Health is of primary importance of humans”. How to make better use of the library, we might as well take a look at the following contents:
1. How many branches are there in Ningxia Medical University library?
There are 3 branches in Ningxia Medical University Library, one is in Shuangyi campus; two others are Yifu Library and Humanistic Library in Yanhu campus.
2. When is the library open?
The opening hours of the public service area of the library are 06:30-22:30, the reading room and library are 08:00-22:30 from Monday to Friday, and 09:00-22:30 on holidays.
3. What certificates are needed to enter the library?
Without showing any certificates, the library implements the full opening management and service mode of honest RFID borrowing and returning self-service, collection and reading integration. When going out, there is a sound at the entrance guard reminding you that the books in the collection you want to read must go through the borrowing procedures at the self-lending and returning service machine before you can take them out of the library for further reading.
4. How to register the reader card?
The school implements all-in-one card management. Thus freshmen have to download “Xuexitong” APP, and new users register on their mobile phones, bind their student numbers according to the prompts, then enter the library for Entry Education (courses) for learning. After the study, the examination will be conducted. After the whole class passes the examination (100 points), the squad leader or the class committee will provide a roster containing student number, name and grade to the circulating and Reading Department of the library to open the function for borrowing and returning service of the reader card. After the reader card is opened, the password needs to be modified in time. The modified format is a combination of upper and lower-case letters and numbers, with a total of 8 characters.
(Xuexitong QR code)
5. What are the ways to find printed books in the library?
(1) To enter the homepage of the library, click “Search for Bibliographic Collections”, and then enter search terms in the search box to retrieve;
(2) To enter the library homepage, enter search terms in the search box to retrieve;
(3) To enter the Chaoxing mobile library APP, click “Collection Inquiries”, and then enter the search term in the search box to retrieve;
(4) To enter the “Mobile Library” in Chaoxing Learning APP, click “Collection Inquiries”, and then enter the search term in the search box to retrieve;
(5) To enters the “Collection Catalog” in the reading machine of Yanhu campus library hall;
(6) To enter the WeChat public platform of Ningxia Medical University Library, click “Collection Inquiries” under “Micro-services”, and then enter search terms in the search box to retrieve.
WeChat official account QR code of Ningxia Medical University Library
6. How to find the required books in the library?
Readers can find the book collection according to the searching methods, including bibliographic information, collection location, and the condition of lending or not, book call number, etc., and then go to each reading room to find books according to the call number. The book call number is a number mark indicating the position of books in the whole book organization, which has a one-to-one correspondence with the specific shelf position in the stack. The shelves of books in the reading room are arranged from top to bottom and from left to right according to the order of book numbers. The category numbers of the call book numbers are arranged in a digit-by-digit comparison from left to right. Readers can refer to the instructions of the guide signs on both sides of the bookshelf.
Bent mode: 1. From left to right
Book Call Number: it identifies the position of the collected books on the bookshelf, which has specific structure and significance.
2. From top to bottom
Book Call number
Take this book as an example:
R687. 4 is the classification number, which gathers similar books together.
10 is the book call number, which means that it is the 10th type of “joint surgery” (the number is given according to the order of arrival of similar books).
7. The number and duration of books that teachers and students can borrow?
Readers who have borrowed books that are about to expire but still need to continue to use can log in to the library homepage
(http:/tsg/index.htm) to renew books in the “Reader Information Query” column or renew books through the library’s WeChat official account or Chaoxing Mobile Library.
8. Can readers bring food, drinks, bags, books, etc. into the library?
Bags, books, notebooks, etc. can be brought into the library, but please do not bring food and drinks into it. When leaving the library, please take your belongings with you because the items on the reading table will be cleaned up in time every day.
9. What should be paid attention to in the library?
After entering the library, phones should be switched off or set to silent mode and Please turn down voices when making phone calls in the reading area; keep the environment clean and tidy, and pay attention to personal dress etiquette. Besides, Take care of library resources such as books, desks, chairs and electronic equipment, etc.; smoking in the library is strictly prohibited and safe electrical operation should be ensured. For other precautions, please refer to the "Library Admission Instructions".
10. How to borrow and return books in the library?
Our library implements self-borrowing and returning services. The specific borrowing and returning procedures are as follows:
Reminder: The library implements a universal borrow-to-return policy, no matter which branch you borrowed from, you can return it in other branches. After borrowing and returning books, readers must use the account inquiry function of the self-borrowing and returning service machine to check the borrowing or returning information, so as to confirm whether the books are borrowed or returned successfully. If you have any questions, please contact the staff in time.
11. What about lost and overdue books?
Reminder: If books borrowed by readers are due in winter or summer vacation, they should be paid back within 2 weeks after the new semester starts, excluding overdue; otherwise it will be treated as overdue.
12. How to use the library online?
All teachers and students around the school can use the library through the library website. The library website is the online service window of the library, which releases all kinds of resources and service information of the library to the whole school. The library website is also a portal for teachers and students to access and utilize various digital resources of the library.
The library website: http:/tsg/index.htm.
13. How to access personal information?
Readers can inquire about personal information and personal password modification in the library through several ways, such as the library website, WeChat official account, mobile library APP, the “Mobile Library” module in Xuexitong, and the “Collection Catalog” module in the reading and newspaper reader. The password of all-in-one card in the library system is different from that of other systems on the campus network. So the readers can log in to the “Reader Information Query” account through the library homepage to modify their personal passwords. Password modification format: combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers, a total of 8 characters. The consequences caused by not changing the password shall be borne by the readers themselves.
14. How to inquire about the new books?
Log into the library website, enter the collection bibliographic inquiry system, and click the “New Book Notification” column to view the new book information.
15. How to recommend new books for purchase?
The library provides readers with a new book recommendation service. You can first check the collection catalog. If the collection is not available, you can log into the library website and enter the new book recommendation service system. After entering, you can recommend the purchase of new books as required. You can also recommend in the “Reader Recommended Purchases” in Xuexitong.
16. What digital resources are in the library?
The library currently has 37 Chinese and foreign databases including CNKI, Wanfang Medicine, Chongqing VIP, Springer_Link, New Oriental. Besides, Baidu Wenku, and some trial resources and public resources have also been opened. All resources are posted on the library website and are open 24 hours a day for the use of the whole school.
17. How to find and read e-books?
You can search and read e-books in Xuexitong, Waterfall, Goethe Machine, Imagination Star, and WeChat Official Accounts.
18. How to query and download Chinese and foreign journal papers?
When Chinese literatures are needed to inquire and download, you can access Chinese and foreign databases such as “CNKI China Knowledge Resource Database”, “Wanfang Medical Network Database” and “VIP Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database” from the database column on the library homepage.
19. How to get help with the condition of being unfamiliar with the use of various digital resources in the library?
You can log into the library website to view the instructions in each digital resource system or platform; also you can participate in the reader training offered by our library every semester to learn, including many lectures on the utilization methods and skills. Please pay attention to and actively participate in the lecture notices that can be published in the news and notice columns of the school or library websites.
20. How to obtain foreign language literature resources?
It can be available from Springer_Link electronic journal database, “100 chain Academic Search” or “worldlib Document Service Platform” (WeChat Official Account, web page and literature service group). At the same time, you can submit a foreign language document request through our library’s “WeChat Group of Document Delivery Service” to obtain the original text of the document.
21. What other information services does the library have?
The library also provides scientific and technological novelty search and document delivery services. Readers can log into the library website, enter “Science and Technology Novelty Search Service” or “Document Delivery Service”, and apply for the above services according to the requirements and steps.
